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sysfs: be careful of error returns from ops->show()
commit c8a139d001a1aab1ea8734db14b22dac9dd143b6 upstream. ops->show() can return a negative error code. Commit 65da348 ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.") (in v4.4) caused this to be stored in an unsigned 'size_t' variable, so errors would look like large numbers. As a result, if an error is returned, sysfs_kf_read() will return the value of 'count', typically 4096. Commit 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs") (in v4.8) extended this error to use the unsigned large 'len' as a size for memmove(). Consequently, if ->show returns an error, then the first read() on the sysfs file will return 4096 and could return uninitialized memory to user-space. If the application performs a subsequent read, this will trigger a memmove() with extremely large count, and is likely to crash the machine is bizarre ways. This bug can currently only be triggered by reading from an md sysfs attribute declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC() during the brief period between when mddev_put() deletes an mddev from the ->all_mddevs list, and when mddev_delayed_delete() - which is scheduled on a workqueue - completes. Before this, an error won't be returned by the ->show() After this, the ->show() won't be called. I can reproduce it reliably only by putting delay like usleep_range(500000,700000); early in mddev_delayed_delete(). Then after creating an md device md0 run echo clear > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state; cat /sys/block/md0/md/array_state The bug can be triggered without the usleep. Fixes: 65da348 ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.") Fixes: 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_kf_read(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
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{
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const struct sysfs_ops *ops = sysfs_file_ops(of->kn);
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struct kobject *kobj = of->kn->parent->priv;
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size_t len;
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ssize_t len;
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/*
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* If buf != of->prealloc_buf, we don't know how
@@ -117,13 +117,15 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_kf_read(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
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if (WARN_ON_ONCE(buf != of->prealloc_buf))
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return 0;
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len = ops->show(kobj, of->kn->priv, buf);
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if (len < 0)
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return len;
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if (pos) {
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if (len <= pos)
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return 0;
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len -= pos;
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memmove(buf, buf + pos, len);
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}
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return min(count, len);
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return min_t(ssize_t, count, len);
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}
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/* kernfs write callback for regular sysfs files */

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